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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">June 28, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">Royal BC Museum invites you to watch a
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<b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">virtual tour of Orcas anytime and anywhere in the world
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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">VICTORIA, BC</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">—This summer, Victoria’s hottest museum experience is the
<i>Orcas</i> exhibition at the Royal BC Museum, but if you can’t make it in person, we’ve a cool way for you to take a dip into this magical, magnificent exhibition: a guided video tour.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">Available anywhere and anytime, our 30-minute-long video tour of
<i>Orcas: Our Shared Future </i>uses the feature exhibition as a springboard to dive even deeper into the stories and science of the Orca.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">The video features Royal BC Museum learning program developer Kim Gough as your congenial and knowledgeable host, introducing viewers to exhibition curators
Lou-ann Neel, Lorne Hammond and Gavin Hanke, who provide informal but informative deep-dives in their respective areas of expertise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">Lou-ann Neel is the Indigenous collections curator at the Royal BC Museum and a world-renowned visual artist. Her section of the tour focuses on the centrality
of the Orca in the culture, mythology and history of Indigenous peoples who live along the coast of what is now known as BC.
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">Dr. Lorne Hammond is a curator of history at the Royal BC Museum. His focus in the exhibition and the virtual tour is popular culture, and helping you make
sense of how the Salish Sea was the epicentre of both the market in captive orcas and the surge in scientific research about Orcas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">Dr. Gavin Hanke is the curator of vertebrate zoology at the Royal BC Museum. His focus in the exhibition and the virtual tour is the biological traits of Orcas
(including their sophisticated social networks) and Orca research today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">To access the virtual tour, visit
</span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/watch/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">rbcm.ca/watch</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">. Click the “Watch Preview & Purchase
Tour” button to enjoy. The virtual tour is $10.00, with 10 per cent off for Royal BC Museum members.
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">If the virtual tour wets your whistle and you’d like to visit the museum to see the
<i>Orcas</i> exhibition in person, you can purchase timed tickets at </span><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/exhibitions/orcas-our-shared-future"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">rbcm.ca/orcas</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif">.
The exhibition will close on January 9, 2022. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 45 Light",sans-serif">About the Royal BC Museum:
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 45 Light",sans-serif">The Royal BC Museum explores the province’s human history and natural history, advances new knowledge and understanding of BC, and provides a dynamic forum for discussion
and a place for reflection. The museum and archives celebrate culture and history, telling the stories of BC in ways that enlighten, stimulate and inspire. Located in Victoria on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen (Songhees and Xwsepsum Nations), we
are a hub of community connections in BC–onsite, offsite and online–taking pride in our collective histories.
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